Why London Underground stopped people walking up the escalators

Re:Why London Underground stopped people walking up the esca... by jon-wood on Sunday January 17, 2016 @02:45AM (#10918721)

I used to get my daily exercise walking the ~150 stairs at Goodge Street, and I hadn't ever thought to do the maths to turn that into a building. Strangely I'd never even consider climbing a building that tall, but as a single flight of stairs it was fine.

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Re:Why London Underground stopped people walking up the esca... by icebraining on Sunday January 17, 2016 @06:03AM (#10919112)

Yeah, this year I've been gradually getting off of the elevator in a lower storey and climbing the rest, and the turns get old really fast.

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Re:Why London Underground stopped people walking up the esca... by nkrisc on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:17AM (#10931265)

I would have liked to take those stairs when I last visited London, but I didn't want to keep my family waiting. They preferred to take the lift. At least I think it was that station. It had a lift and a very tall spiral staircase.

I guess I can call an elevator in London a lift...

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Re:Why London Underground stopped people walking up the esca... by zimpenfish on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:03AM (#10930777)

Ooh, I used to do that as well. Seemed sensible since I was normally being tremendously lazy and getting the tube to there from CHX (in my flimsy defence, even before they buggered everything up around TCR station, the walk from CHX to Goodge Street was mildly unpleasant.)

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